The map will be published on Dezeen just before the festival, which takes place across London from 14 to 22 September. This year we're integrating it with our World Design Guide - the world's first and only guide to all the best architecture and design events around the world.

Seriously, the London Design Festival deputy director Max Fraser comes accross as culturaly insensitive with his comments like “you can’t flag down a taxi”. Of course you can’t. It’s not London or New York, it’s simply a cultural fact that you go to a taxi stand in Italy!

“The subway is difficult to navigate” – No it’s not, it’s one of the most straightforward subways in the world, and on par with the London Tube.

The confusion he refers to is the beauty of the Salone, that the entire city is involved, it is as open to the public and the visitor as it is to the professional, something that fashion weeks around the world have yet to embrace.